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Place and style panels

Panels are the primary element for organizing parts of your comic on the page. You can drag panels from the element well at the bottom of the screen and drop them on the page, although if you are using a page from a template or a panel layout from the Inspector, your page may already have all the panels you need.

Adding images to panels:

Comic Life displays a photo button in the center each empty panel. To add a photo to the panel, tap the photo button to show the image picker. Here you can add an image that is already in your photo library or you can take a picture with the built-in camera. (The camera requires iPad 2.)

To use an image from your library, select the Photo Albums tab and tap the image. The image is positioned and sized to fit the panel. Tap the background to dismiss the picker.

To take a new picture (on iPad 2), go to the Camera tab, take the picture, and Comic Life positions and sizes the picture to fit the panel.

Editing panels:

For basic editing information, see Common Editing Operations.

Styling panels:

Tap in the toolbar to show the Panel Inspector. The Inspector has three tabs at the top: Style, Panel and Arrange.

Style

The Style tab displays the default style and any other predefined styles in this comic. The Options section provides further controls for setting the fill, border and shadow. See Styles for more information.

Panel

The Panel tab lets you alter the shape of the panel.

Arrange

The Arrange tab allows you to move your panel in front of or behind other elements.